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NY lawmakers examine possible uses for Plum Island

2015-09-29 04:01:59| Livestock - Topix.net

With construction of a new animal research facility in Kansas already underway, New York lawmakers met with environmentalists and others to discuss the future of a remote island off the eastern tip of Long Island that since the 1950s has housed the government's only lab studying infectious diseases that could imperil the U.S. livestock industry. FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. - With construction of a new animal research facility in Kansas already underway, New York lawmakers met with environmentalists and others to discuss the future of a remote island off the eastern tip of Long Island that since the 1950s has housed the government's only lab studying infectious diseases that could imperil the U.S. livestock industry.

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